Staff Product Designer, Presence

Role overview This Staff Product Designer role focuses on a Presence experience within a remote US-based organization, shaping how people show up and feel connected in real time across the product. The work blends interaction design, systems thinking, and visual craft, with an emphasis on raising the quality bar for a high-traffic, consumer-facing surface. It is a senior individual-contributor position that partners closely with product, engineering, and research to define a long-term design vision for presence.

Responsibilities - Lead end-to-end design for the Presence area, from concept and exploration through ship and iteration - Define and evolve the design system contributions that support presence, identity, and real-time cues - Partner with product management, engineering, and user research to frame problems and validate solutions - Mentor other designers and contribute to broader design critiques, rituals, and quality standards - Champion user-centered thinking and accessibility across the team's work - Communicate design direction and rationale clearly to cross-functional partners and leadership

Requirements - A strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design work shipped in consumer or social products - Several years of experience as a senior or staff-level product designer - Demonstrated ability to lead complex, ambiguous design problems and turn them into shipped outcomes - Comfort collaborating with engineers on implementation trade-offs, including motion and real-time behavior - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a remote, distributed team environment